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NOTE ON DELIMA. 115
In lierbosis ad cacumina montium Pakwan, supra Cantonem, ipse
legi, (1. 12 Julii 1867 (Exsicc. n. 14,113).
Plantam nostram, induineuto foliorumque forma certe distinctissimam,
iion tantum cum speciebus continentis Indise et Zeylaniae, sed
etiam cum plerisque earum ab amico Maximowiczio, ia cgregia com-
mentatione ' De Etamneis Orieutali-Asiaticis ' * recensitarum, com-
paravi. Fructu licet etiamnum ignoto, de sectioue,—habitu, stylo
indiviso, ovulorumque fabrica (difficile ob minutiem tandem explorata)
ponderatis,—miuime dubito ;
ac inter commilitones probabiMter magis
R. TramjulcB nostrati quam aliis est affinis, nisi forte R. graudifoUce,
I", et M.,— raibi qiiidem non notse,—
propior. Petala fere qualia R.
caroUn'uma a Spragueo depicta (A. Gray, Gen. PI. U, S. ii, tab. 167),
sed sinu profuadiore ac paulo angustiore lateribusque extus magis ob-
lique truncatis invenio.
NOTE ON DELIMA, Linn.
By H. F. Hance, Ph.D.
Bentham and Hooker, in the ' Genera Plantarum,' retain the genus
Belima, distinguishing it from Tdracera by its 2-3 ovules and soli-
tary carpel. But Delima sarmentosa, as remarked by Planchon and
Triana (Ann. Sc. Nat. 4me ser. xvii. 20), has very frequently a large
number of ovides, as I have repeatedly observed ; and it vras, indeed,
from noticing this circumstance, and relying on the accuracy of the
character assigned to Delima by authors, that fifteen years ago, when
my acquaintance witli plants was far more limited than at present, I
described the plant under the name of Leontoglossum. Since, more-
over, several genuine Tetracerts have only 3 or 4 ovules, whilst in
others they are indefinite, and T. sesv.lifioi'a and T. (Delimojjsis) liir-
suta have a solitary carpel, it is manifest that these genera must be re-
united, as proposed by Planchon and Triana.
* Dolenclura est, hac in laudatissima diatribe, virum ornatissimum, casu
quodam R. ntilem et R. cJdorophoram, a docto Decaisneo in Rondotii opusculo
quod inscribitur ' Notice du Tert de Chine ' deseriptas, ibidemque a solerti
Riocreuxii mauu nitide depictas, omniuo preetennisisae.